Business Process Model and Notation cookbook

Returns a FunctionExpression representing a call to SQL WEEKDAY function. dateAdd()Īdd the time unit to the date expression. Returns the specified date part from the SQL expression.

now()ĭefaults to returning date and time, but accepts ‘time’ or ‘date’ to return only

Get the difference between two dates/times. Generate a random value between 0 and 1 via SQL. $query = $articles -> find () $query -> select () Ī number of commonly used functions can be created with the func() method: rand()

Results in SELECT COUNT(*) count FROM. Selecting Data ¶ĬakePHP makes building SELECT queries simple. Though almost all business school students know Excel, they often do not. If you want to take a look at what SQL CakePHP is generating, you can turnĭatabase query logging on. models and the return processes can we get a good feel for the dimensions of. Re-evaluating a query will result in additional SQL being run. It also means that if a Query hasn’t beenĮvaluated, no SQL is ever sent to the database. Until one of these conditions are met, the query can be modified without additional The query’s toList() or toArray() method is called. This will return the first result in the setīuilt by SELECT (it adds LIMIT 1 to the query). Statement object, and is to be used with insert/update/delete queries. This means a query is not executed until one Use the combine() method from the collections library // This is equivalent to find('list') $keyValueList = $articles -> find () -> combine ( 'id', 'title' ) // An advanced example $results = $articles -> find () -> where () -> order () -> map ( function ( $row ) Queries Are Lazily Evaluated ¶

Business Process Model and Notation cookbook